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That's not true at all, though? Source has continued to get changes & upgrades over the years. It has a vulkan backend, the UI system is no longer scaleform but

That's not true at all, though? Source has continued to get changes & upgrades over the years. It has a vulkan backend, the UI system is no longer scaleform but a web-based system called Panorama, a new physics engine called Rubikon that replaced the old Havok engine, etc... They aren't putting out many new games, although they did just release Artifact a couple months ago. But DOTA 2 & CSGO continue to get updates, changes, and improvements. CSGO for example has an entirely new, machine-learning based anti-cheat system called VacNet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObhK8lUfIlc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObhK8lUfIlc They have tons of talks on GDC of all sorts of really cool stuff they are doing that's related to Source 2 and has nothing to do with Steam.

m-p-3 8y ago
Are those updates to the Source engine/SDK available to devs outside of Valve though?
- kllrnohj 8y ago
  Does that really matter? Source Engine was never really open source and never really on a continuous update schedule. Anyone with a vested interest in using source would have obtained a license for it anyway as it's always been non-free, and that license would presumably have terms for what you do and don't get access to. But you can apparently hack around with Source 2 by using The Lab's Robot Repair (Source 2) as a mod base and use the Hammer 2 tools from DOTA 2. So... technically yes, you could play with it. Just maybe not easily, and maybe not entirely intentionally.